Tuberculosis
Volume 92, Issue 2 , Pages 133-138 , March 2012

Informatics resources for tuberculosis – Towards drug discovery

  • Jagadish Chandrabose Sundaramurthi

      Affiliations

    • ICMR-Biomedical Informatics Centre, Tuberculosis Research Centre (ICMR), Chennai 600031, India
    • ,
  • S. Brindha

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai 600025, India
    • ,
  • T.B.K. Reddy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
    • ,
  • Luke Elizabeth Hanna

      Affiliations

    • ICMR-Biomedical Informatics Centre, Tuberculosis Research Centre (ICMR), Chennai 600031, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Dept. of Clinical Research, Tuberculosis Research Centre, Mayor VR Ramanathan Road, Chetput, Chennai 600 031, India. Tel.: +91 44 28369597; fax: +91 44 28362528.

Received 25 April 2011 ,Revised 3 August 2011 ,Accepted 22 August 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2011.08.006

Tuberculosis
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